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2008-09-07 Down Under

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Posted by anonymous5089 2008-09-07 12:55|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Oh, man - that will go over really, really well in fire country - like the chaparral hills of Southern California. I can't imagine a better way to call down an anti-Islamist purge down on the Muslim community, if some stupid jihadi-wanna-bees get caught starting brushfires, in fire season, and burn over a couple of counties and/or towns.
I guaran-damn-tee that if this happens, there will be serious repercussions. Involving mobs, riots and expulsion orders... even in California. There will be no sympathy for arsonists on the industrial scale.

Posted by Sgt. Mom">Sgt. Mom 2008-09-07 13:29|| http://www.celiahayes.com]">[http://www.celiahayes.com] 2008-09-07 13:29|| Front Page Top

#2 That assumes they can be id'd and caught, tho. This fits with the Wilderness theme of creating destructive chaos in Western countries through hard to predict / hard to stop sabotage.

Posted by lotp 2008-09-07 13:45|| 2008-09-07 13:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Note that WND already claimed muslim jihadism behind some of last years fire seasons in California IIRC; and in France, in addition to the carBBQ, school and gymnasiums torchings, this is a well known but taboo fact that some of the arsonists caught after having lighted fire in southern France were homeboys who drove from marseilles or similarly islamized big cities into the countryside - thought what is th eimportance of that vs local arsonists, I don't know.

And, as a final note, since a while back I mentioned the centuries long predation of north african muslim pirates against the southern, mediterranean part of Europe, which led to its decline, just let me mention that IIRC, the flora of modern southern France is nothing like it was in antiquity, for a very simple reason : the repeated forest fires that were lighted by the muslim raiders as a mean of terrorism, already, leading to a flora that is now actually acclimated to bushfires. So, nothing new under the sun.

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-09-07 13:48|| 2008-09-07 13:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Sgt. Mom is right. This is a good way to arouse anti-terrorist sentiment in dry regions, like southern California, that are largely pro or neutral about those guys. If they burn a few Hollywood homes perhaps we will finally see anti-Islamic terrorist movies. Those I'll watch and enough others may do so also, they they will make money.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2008-09-07 17:01|| 2008-09-07 17:01|| Front Page Top

#5 if they start that sh*t in San Diego, a lot of innocent people will be hurt.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-09-07 17:24|| 2008-09-07 17:24|| Front Page Top

#6 So Islam causes global warming by turning forests into CO2? Sound the meme-collision warning!

Posted by SteveS 2008-09-07 18:14|| 2008-09-07 18:14|| Front Page Top

#7 There isn't anything new to this, in fact this has been a worry for several decades. The Japanese were trying to set the American West on fire with their incendiary balloons that rode the Jet Stream, with minimal effect during the WWII.

As for the thought of arson sparking a general call to arms, it won't happen. Last year in San Bernadino a man was caught with a gas can in hand behind a warehouse, he ended up being shot for his troubles on the scene, but the story wasn't reported much outside of the inland empire area and blogs such as this one, and no matter what the outcome, who are we going to protest? Hot, dry Summers and plants that need fire to reproduce?

And, don't think that if the Muj actually do wind up doing something like this the Greenies are going to all of a sudden light up the peace pipe and say "start killing bad guys." In fact, it's going to be the opposite, with general praise being leveled against the arsonists for clearing the land of evil humans and their homes.

Want to prevent this? Run sheep in the brushy areas and log the forests.

Posted by MoreScotch4Me 2008-09-07 18:48|| 2008-09-07 18:48|| Front Page Top

#8 That "Screaming Squirrel/Animals" TV Commercial???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-09-07 21:32|| 2008-09-07 21:32|| Front Page Top

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